Marla olmstead biography

2007 American film

My Kid Could Paint That is a 2007 documentary film by director Amir Bar-Lev. The movie follows the early artistic career of Marla Olmstead, a young girl from Binghamton, New York who gains fame first as a child prodigy painter of abstract art, and then becomes the subject of controversy concerning whether she truly completed the paintings herself or did so with her parents' assistance and/or direction.

The film was bought by Sony Pictures Classics in 2007 after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.

Taglines

• "Inspiration or Manipulation?

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  You Decide."

• "American dream or art world scheme?"

Summary

Marla's father, an amateur painter, describes how Marla watches him paint, wants to help, and is given her own canvas and supplies. A friend asks to hang Marla's pictures in his coffee shop and is surprised when people ask to buy them.

A local newspaper reporter, Elizabeth Cohen, writes a piece about Marla, after first asking